The Press: The Death of Deathless Deer

Who stabbed Baba Waring, leading lady of Folliana, when the lights went
out? Most New York Daily News readers probably don't care. Those who do
will never know, because Publisher Joe Patterson murdered Deathless
Deer (TIME, Oct. 19).

Deathless Deer was nine months old. Joe Patterson himself had fondly
named her. She was the only new comic strip he had bought in nine
years. The Deer herself was a beauteous Egyptian princess who in the
fourth installment suffered death, then awakened 3,000 years later in a
U.S. museum. From there she fared forth...